Education

• Assistant Professor (March 2024-till present)

School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039 Assam, India

• Associate Research Fellow (November 2023-March, 2024)

University of Wollongong, Department of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

• Research Assistant Professor (September 2023-November 2023)

Hanyang University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wangsimni, Seoul 04763, South Korea

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (April 2021-August 2023)

Hanyang University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wangsimni, Seoul 04763, South Korea

• Project Scientist (January 2020-June 2020)

Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India

Awards

· Awarded the International grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India to attend the Energy System Conference 2019 in London, United Kingdom).

· Awarded an International grant from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to attend the conference on Power, Energy and Electrical Engineering (CPEEE 2019) in Tokyo, Japan.

· Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India scholarship in M. Tech. (2012-2014).

· Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India scholarship in PhD.

Professional Services

· Associate Editor

Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology (JEET), SCI

Publisher: Springer

Reviewer

· IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Publisher: IEEE

· IET Energy Systems Integration, Publisher: Wiley

· International Journal of Electrical and Power System, Publisher: Elsevier

· Applied Energy, Publisher: Elsevier

· Renewable Energy, Publisher: Elsevier

· Journal of Energy Storage, Publisher: Elsevier

· International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Publisher: Elsevier

· Energy, Publisher: Elsevier

· Energy Conversion and Management, Publisher: Elsevier

· Journal of the Franklin Institute, Publisher: Elsevier.

· Scientific Report, Springer Nature

Session Chair

IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids, December 2023, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

1.       Kuldeep Kumar and Sungwoo Bae, "Coordinated Dynamic Power Management for Renewable Energy-based Grid-Connected Microgrids using Model Predictive Control," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume 19, 2023, no. 9, pp. 9596-9608. (Impact factor-11.64) (Q1)

2.       Kuldeep Kumar, Sungwoo Bae, Dynamic power management based on model predictive control for hybrid-energy-storage-based grid-connected microgrids, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Volume 143, 2022,10838 4, ISSN 0142-0615, (Impact factor-5.96) (Q1)

3.       Kuldeep Kumar, Sungwoo Bae. “Two-Layer Energy Management Strategy for Renewable Power-to-Gas System-based Microgrids,” Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 61, 2023, Pages 106723.

 (Impact factor-8.90) (Q1)

4.       Kuldeep Kumar, Mohd Alam, Viresh Dutta, Energy management strategy for integration of fuel cell-electrolyzer technologies in microgrid, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy,

Volume 46, Issue 68, 2021, Pages 33738-33755, ISSN 0360-3199, (Impact factor-7.13), (Q1)

5.       Kuldeep Kumar, Mohd Alam, Saket Verma, Viresh Dutta, Effect of hysteresis band control strategy on energy efficiency and durability of solar-hydrogen storage based microgrid in partial cloudy condition, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 32, 2020, 101936, ISSN 2352-152X, (Impact factor-8.90) (Q1)

6.       Kuldeep Kumar, Mohd Alam, Saket Verma, Viresh Dutta, Analysis of metal hydride storage on the basis of thermophysical properties and its application in microgrid, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 222, 2020,113217, ISSN 0196-8904, (Impact factor-11.53) (Q1)

7.       Kuldeep Kumar, Mohd Alam, Dibakar Rakshit, Viresh Dutta, Operational characteristics of metal hydride energy storage system in microgrid, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 187, 2019, Pages 176-190, ISSN 0196-8904, (Impact factor-11.53) (Q1)

8.       Kuldeep Kumar, Jagendra Srivastava, Dibakar Rakshit, Viresh Dutta, Performance characterization of zero carbon emission microgrid in subtropical climate based on experimental energy and exergy analyses, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 154, 2017, Pages 224-243, ISSN 0196-8904, (Impact factor-11.53) (Q1)

9.       Kuldeep Kumar, Mohd Alam, Viresh Dutta. Techno-economic analysis of metal hydride-based energy storage system in a microgrid. Energy Storage. 2019;1:e62. https://doi.org/10.1002/est2.62.

10.    Kuldeep Kumar and Viresh Dutta. Energy management strategy using model predictive control for power-to-gas (PtG) system integrated with microgrid. MRS Energy & Sustainability 9, 518–533 (2022).

11.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Saket Verma, Viresh Dutta, Renewable sources-based DC microgrid using hydrogen energy storage: Modelling and experimental analysis, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Volume 42, 2020, 100840, ISSN 2213-1388, (Impact factor-7.63) (Q1)

12.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta, Droop-based control strategy for balancing the level of hydrogen storage in direct current microgrid application, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 33, 2021, 102106, ISSN 2352-152X, (Impact factor-8.90) (Q1)

13.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta. Design and economic evaluation of low voltage DC microgrid based on hydrogen storage. Journal of Green Energy, (Impact Factor-2.6)

14.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta. Comparative efficiency analysis for silicon, silicon carbide MOSFETs and IGBT device for DC–DC boost converter. SN Applied Sciences. 2019,1:1700.

15.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta. Design and analysis of fuel cell and photovoltaic-based 110 V DC microgrid using hydrogen energy storage. Energy Storage 2019.

16.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta. Dynamic modelling and experimental analysis of waste heat recovery from the proton exchange membrane fuel cell using thermoelectric generator. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2020.19:100627. (Impact Factor-4.94).

17.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Viresh Dutta. Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic-Battery System for Off- Grid DC Load Application. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems 2020. (Impact Factor-3.13)

18.    Saket Verma, Kuldeep Kumar, S C Kaushik. Effect of Hydrogen Enrichment Strategy on performance and Emission Features of Biodiesel-Biogas Dual Fuel Engine Using Simulation and Experimental Analyses. Journal of Energy Resources Technology (ASME) 2020. (Impact Factor-3.18).

19.    Mohd Alam, Kuldeep Kumar, Sungwoo Bae, Virtual-inertia-based power management scheme in fuel cell-battery-supercapacitor-based DC microgrid. Energy Sources, Part a: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 2024, Volume 46, 2024, no. 1, 1944–1960